DJ Irie
speaker
67 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
DJ Irie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
Let's get it, man. Let's get to the money. DJ Irie, listen, thank you so much for such a kind intro. I appreciate that, man. And listen, when family calls, family shows up, right? So we're here. Listen, I'm a kid that just loved music, right? And music has taken me on such an incredible journey. I started out collecting records. I had an opportunity to DJ an event.
This is like literally like my senior year of high school, right? Ended up working out because everybody was drunk, right? And it ended up being the general manager of Planet Hollywood that I did the event for. And he was really impressed by what I was doing. Ended up giving me an opportunity at Planet Hollywood. This is when Planet Hollywood was like the wildest thing ever. The Vegas casino?
No, no, no, in Miami. Oh, the restaurant. The restaurant. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was one of my first opportunities. And then from there, I went to the skating rink. And the next thing you know, I'm on the radio. Yep. I get a call from the Miami Heat. Hey, we need to talk. Right?
And in 1999, 2000, I was the first official DJ, not just of the Miami Heat, but any professional sports franchise. No way. You know that? It didn't exist before that. This is the 1999, 2000 season when this happened. They had just moved from the Miami Arena to the American Airlines Arena. And the marketing team was like, hey, let's do something really cool and different.
And they came up with the idea of having an official DJ. And, you know, start asking around town and ended up, hey, I think Irie's the guy that we should start this with. And the funny thing about it was when Keep It Real goes wrong, well, all this went wrong. I said no at first.
Yeah, I'm an idiot. Hello, Miami Heat, man. This guy needs to be committed, right? Yeah, I thought, I didn't think it was really on brand for me at the time, right? Because understanding who their season ticket holders were, which is really what they focus on. I was like, these aren't the folks that are listening to my radio show. They're not the folks that are coming to my nightclub events. And
Then I woke up and said, hey, this is an incredible opportunity.
Yeah. I was like, there's something here. And thank God I did. Three championship rings later. Wow. And just the most incredible experience of my life. So that worked out really well. And then here we are today. I started the Ivy Foundation. um, started Irie Weekend, um, which is on its 19th year. 19th year. 19th year. Sorry, I said 10 to 15 years. 19 years. 19 years.
That is, that is definitely, uh, something, you know, um, 19th year of Irie Weekend, um, uh, artist related, um, which is our, uh, events and talent acquisition, uh, firm. And, um, and yeah, and of course Irie Music Corp, which, you know, handles my appearances and, you know, traveling, uh, All over the world. All over the planet. And yeah, and we're here.
This is the most important place to be is right here, right now.
It's a lot different now. Well, first of all, I don't put too much time and energy and focus into just regular nightclub nights anymore. The focus is really a lot more on private events and corporate. The cool thing with that is clubs are great. Don't get me wrong. That's where I started. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for all the support I got from nightclubs.
But from where I am now in my career and in my life, it's more than just going out and playing some songs, right? You know, the relationships and what we're looking to create, you know, opportunity and business-wise is a lot bigger, right, than just an event. And that magic happens in the private events world and in the corporate events world, right?
So that's the first thing is the nature of the event, right? You know, second thing is, because I don't ever want to just show up, play some music and leave, you know? Great, even for a good amount of money, that's cool, because money's important, right?
But that same amount of time, I'd rather put that into something where I can create a relationship that can create a much bigger opportunity, right? Whether it be on the event side, whether it be on the talent side, whether it be on brand side, there's always... another opportunity to come out of an event.
If you look at it as a platform and springboard rather than just, you know, hey, I'm going to go and play a couple songs, get a check and leave.
Sure. Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll tell you exactly how and I'll give you an example because there's really, listen, when it comes to the motivation behind doing this, a lot of you have different motivations, right? But there's only one motivation that you will literally excel, right? And be embraced, because people understand authenticity, right?
And I think the best example I could probably give you, and it's very near and dear to me because I taught him how to DJ, is Shaq. I can't tell you, listen, I don't have enough fingers on two of my hands to tell you how many celebrities I've personally had conversations with that they wanna become DJs. Really? Yeah, yeah, man, man.
But I wanna focus on Shaq for a minute because Shaq, when he first came to Miami, This was 2004 or five, right? Shaq comes to Miami. We had known each other before, right? Just, you know, being around the scene. But he called me and he's like, hey man, come by the house. He just bought his house in Starling. Come by the house, I wanna build out a studio, right?
Showing 1–20 of 67 · page 1 of 4
Next →